“Our faith is that, like the Mother of God, by being filled with Christ and receiving God within us, we pass from death to life.

“Let us be filled with Christ!

“But if her Son, God Himself, died, was buried and rose again, she too chose to die, like all of us, and to be laid in the tomb. Yet the tomb could not contain her.

“that the Mother of God could have chosen not to die and could have been taken bodily into heaven by her Son

“The feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God is such a great feast because the Mother of God chose humility, just like her Son,